This chat-tyrant occurs in the Andes of Peru and western Bolivia. It uses humid montane forest and shrubby forest edges, where it feeds mainly on insects.
Its head is greyish brown, with a yellow stripe above the eye.
It is usually seen alone, sometimes in pairs, in humid montane forest, scrub, and thickets along forest borders. Its diet consists mostly of insects and beetles.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.